Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 1st Jul 2002 17:50 UTC
David Dawes is maybe the most active XFree86 developer and he is also the lead founder of the project. He works for Tungsten Graphics, which is the main company working on the XFree, DRI and Mesa codebases today. We are happy to host an interview with David, discussing the present and future of XFree86 project. Update: Still confused how a VSYNCed desktop look like? Read here.
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All this talk about vsync, and I still don't understand exactly what it is.
From what I read here, it seems mean that the screen is only redrawn during the vertical synchronization of the monitor (i.e. while the electron beam is going back from the bottom to the top of the screen). If that is correct, isn't that the same as double buffering + page flipping in DirectX or OpenGL?